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Stellar flares 100-10^7 times more energetic than the most powerful solar flares have been detected from 9 normal F and G main sequence stars (Schaefer, King & Deliyannis 2000). Although these stars are not in close binary systems, their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Eric P Rubenstein

We analyze the correlation between starspots and superflares on solar-type stars using observations from the Kepler mission. The analysis shows that the observed fraction of stars with superflares decreases as the rotation period increases…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Hiroyuki Maehara , Yuta Notsu , Shota Notsu , Kosuke Namekata , Satoshi Honda , Takako T. Ishii , Daisaku Nogami , Kazunari Shibata

Stellar activity can reveal itself in the form of radiation (eg, enhanced X-ray coronal emission, flares) and particles (eg, winds, coronal mass ejections). Together, these phenomena shape the space weather around (exo)planets. As stars…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-29 A. A. Vidotto

Stellar flares with ${10^2-10^7}$ times more energy than the largest solar flare have been detected from 9 normal F and G main sequence stars (Schaefer, King & Deliyannis 1999). These superflares have durations of hours to days and are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric P. Rubenstein , Bradley E. Schaefer

Many similar phenomena occur in astrophysical systems with spatial and mass scales different by many orders of magnitudes. For examples, collimated outflows are produced from the Sun, proto-stellar systems, gamma-ray bursts, neutron star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shuang Nan Zhang

Stellar flares are short-duration ($<$ hours) bursts of radiation associated with surface magnetic reconnection events. Stellar magnetic activity generally decreases as a function of both age and Rossby number, $R_0$, a measure of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-03 Adina D. Feinstein , Darryl Z. Seligman , Kevin France , Jonathan Gagné , Adam Kowalski

Solar flares are large explosions on the Sun's surface caused by a sudden release of magnetic energy. They are known to cause local short-lived oscillations travelling away from the explosion like water rings. Here we show that the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Karoff , H. Kjeldsen

The most powerful explosions on the Sun [...] drive the most severe space-weather storms. Proxy records of flare energies based on SEPs in principle may offer the longest time base to study infrequent large events. We conclude that one…

Recent space based observations of the Sun revealed that magnetic reconnection is ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere, ranging from small scale reconnection (observed as nanoflares) to large scale one (observed as long duration flares or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-01 Kazunari Shibata , Shinsuke Takasao

We advance a "Solar flare" model of magnetar activity, whereas a slow evolution of the magnetic field in the upper crust, driven by electron MHD (EMHD) flows, twists the external magnetic flux tubes, producing persistent emission, bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Maxim Lyutikov

Stellar superflares are energetic outbursts of electromagnetic radiation, similar to solar flares but releasing more energy, up to $10^{36}$ erg on main sequence stars. It is unknown whether the Sun can generate superflares, and if so, how…

According to recent observations relative number of flare stars does not change very much from cool dwarfs to hot A stars. Flare energies are strongly correlated with stellar luminosity and radius. Whence it follows that the typical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-25 Alexei Struminsky , Andrei Sadovski

We demonstrate that for weak flares the dependence on spottedness can be rather weak. The fact is that such flares can occur both in small and large active regions. At the same time, powerful large flares of classes M and X occur much more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 M. M. Katsova , V. N. Obridko , D. D. Sokoloff , I. M. Livshits

Solar CMEs and flares have a statistically well defined relation, with more energetic X-ray flares corresponding to faster and more massive CMEs. How this relation extends to more magnetically active stars is a subject of open research.…

The issue of predicting solar flares is one of the most fundamental in physics, addressing issues of plasma physics, high-energy physics, and modelling of complex systems. It also poses societal consequences, with our ever-increasing need…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 R. T. James McAteer , Peter T. Gallagher , Paul A. Conlon

Although the environments of star and planet formation are thermodynamically cold, substantial X-ray emission from 10-100 MK plasmas is present. In low mass pre-main sequence stars, X-rays are produced by violent magnetic reconnection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric Feigelson , Leisa Townsley , Manuel Gudel , Keivan Stassun

Solar-type stars exhibit their highest levels of magnetic activity during their early convective pre-main sequence (PMS) phase of evolution. The most powerful PMS flares, super-flares and mega-flares, have peak X-ray luminosities of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Konstantin V. Getman , Eric D. Feigelson

It has been known for some time now that rapidly-rotating solar-like stars possess the stellar equivalent of solar prominences. These may be three orders of magnitude more massive than their solar counterparts, and their ejection from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Jardine , J. -F. Donati , S. G. Gregory

In addition to well-known mechanisms of excitation of solar and stellar oscillations by turbulent convection and instabilities, the oscillations can be excited by an impulsive localized force caused by the energy release in solar and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Alexander G. Kosovichev

Flares from the Sun and other stars are most prominently observed in the soft X-ray band. Most of the radiated energy, however, is released at optical/UV wavelengths. In spite of decades of investigation, the physics of flares is not fully…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 E. Flaccomio , G. Micela , S. Sciortino , A. M. Cody , M. G. Guarcello , M. Morales-Calderòn , L. Rebull , J. R. Stauffer